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Dickens and His Friends.

A curious bit of fun took place after
one of our night rehearsals of Henry
the Fifth" which must speak of here.
Charles Dickens asked me to sup with
him at Clunn's Hotel, Covent Garden,
together with Maclise and John For
stea. We all got very jolly, and about
2 in the morning we adjourned to some
vile slums in what was at that time
called the .'Rookery." TRUSTING place
where the low thieves of London
"most did congregate." Charles Dick
ems had made an appointment with
friendly detective, in order to see
some character he had heard of and
wished to sketch for work he had on
hand.
The place was crowded with a lot
of the most hideous-looking roughs |
ever set eyes on. Dickens stood gin
and tire-water all round; but, instead
of harmony and good nature, it pro-
duced nothing but discord and anger.
The roughs began to chaff the swells,
and when they got the worst of it be-
gan to show fight. One herculean
ruffian got hold of Dickens by the
throat and raised his dirty fist to plant
it in his face. | was just in time to
catch him by the back of the neck and
waist of the trousers and hurl him into
the midst of his pals. His coat was
off in an instant and he came at me
ike wild beast; but l was a smart
boy with my hands in those days, and
had learned thing or two from Mat
Robinson and Bendigc As the bully
was about to deliver his blow, l made
a terrific counter right between the
eyes and grassed my man on the sanded
floor
Before one could say Jack Robin
son" the lights were out and bottles
and glasses flying in all directions.
The shouts and oaths, smashing of
chairs and benches, and the noise in
the dark made it impossible to tell
friend from foes, and | could not tell
what had happened to Dickens and the
Others till l found myself under gas
lamp by st. Giles church, where l
found Forster and Dickens together.
They told me Maclise was all right;
had escaped without scratch and gone
home in cab. The detective had been
our guardian angel. He it was who
opened the door, dragged us into the
street and babe us run for our lives,
while he held ON at the portal and kept
the roughs at bay inside the pub. We
soon found cabs and each of us made
tracks for our individual roost, after
having arranged to breakfast at Dull
witch at 2 o'clock the same day. We
were all there and in good time. Dick
ems and Forster had called for Maclise,
and they all came in Charles broug-
ham. The day was fine, and the land
lord of the hotel near the Actors col
lege gave us a splendid breakfast,
which we enjoyed heartily. Nota man
of us was anything the worse for the
overnight spree. That was a day of
life and jollity. He hue fugasis! Frail
mortality! Alas, the day! Three who
took part in that lively quartette are
musical no more; for this world their
strings are cracked, their notes are
dumb, the mutes are on; though they
take music now, hope, in the celes-
tial sphere.-JameS r. A1aderson's Me-
ml0irS.
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manitouo1 pilot.
THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1887.
How Sea Captains Get Rich.

1t is often a source of wonder how
go many ship captains amass large
fortunes, build palatial residences, and
settle down, after life of hardship
and exposure, as the seers and proph-
cts of their native villages. To be
sure, says the Boston AdUertiser, since
the days of high freights and vast
profits of the East India trade, when
vessel frequently paid for herself in
one voyage, fewer opportunities are
afforded to owners and captains to ac-
cumulate fortunes with the rapidity of
former days.
Still there are methods o. which the
crafty commander of the ship is ena-
bled to pick up a few stray dollars.
The law provides that the captain of
every ship shall provide a "slop chest"
containing boots, oilskin, socks, I'M
derclothing, etc., to be sold to the
sailors, including a goodly supply of
tobacco. The law also provides that
the profits of the captain from this
sale shall be limited to 10 per cent.
This, however, is rarely enforced, and
the captain disposes of tobacco that
cost 80 cents a pound for 81 cents, 81,
and often $3.50. The other contents
of the slop chest are also doled out to
the sailors, with whom it is case of
Hobson's choice, with enormous profits
to the captains pocket.
Captains also have a peculiar fond
ness for commissions, and when lying
at port the butcher, the ship chandler,
and the bum-boatman all willingly
agree to pay over a certain percentage
of the money received from the ship
for the sake of obtaining the trade.
Money has to be hired to meet the
bills, and here, too, the inevitable
commission jingles in the pockets of
the master of the ship, at sea an auto
crat, on shore an object of adulation.
Vessels in distress are often obliged
to hire large sums of money to meet
the expenses of repairing, and part of
the interest paid and the large bonuses
of the advances find their way into
the ever-open pocket of the crafty
mariner.
As an illustration, the writer was
On board a ship the second mate of
which was to be discharged at for
eign port. The captain, in making up
the accounts ready to be submitted to
lIIC SOliSul, -Ouutl tlltC IlC ufsu Decu
charging the mate 20 cents pound
for tobacco. "Those fellows on shore
will get all his money, anyhow" said
he, land | reckon might as well have
part of it." Accordingly, tobacco was
entered in the bill 81 per pound, and
the other items in the bill were in
creased in like proportion.
From this short account it will be
seen that the captains still have OPP
portunities to make little money ION
the outside" The amounts made by
some by smuggling soon enable them
to retire from the sea and live life
of ease.
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solomon's Judgment in Chinese.

Two women came before a Mandarin
in China, each of them protesting that
she was the mother of little child
they had brought with them. They
were so eager and so positive that the
Mandarin was sorely puzzled. He re-
tired to consult with his wife, who was
a wise and clever woman, whose opin-
ion was held in great repute in the
neighborhood.
She requested five minutes in which
to deliberate. At the end of that time
she spoke:
''Let the servants catch me a large
fish in the river, and let it be brought
me here alive"
This was done.
Bring me now the infant" she
said, "but leave the women in the out
er chamber"
This was done, too. Then the Man
darin's wife caused the baby to be I'M
dressed and its clothes put on the fish.
Garry the creature outside now and
throw it into the river in the sight of
the two women"
The servant obeyed her orders, fling
ing the fish into the water, where it
rolled about and struggled, Disguised,
no doubt, by the wrapping in which it
was swaddled
Without moments pause one of the
mothers threw herself into the river
with a shrek. She must save her
drowning child.
without a doubt she is the true
mother" she declared; and the Man
darins wife commanded that she
should be rescued and the child given
to her.
without doubt she is the true
mother" she declared. And the Man
DARN nodded his head and thought his
wife the wisest woman in the Flowery
Kingdom. Meantime the false mother
crept away. She was found out in her
imposture, and the Mandarin's wife
forgot all ABOUT her in the occupation
of DOMINIC the little baby in the best
silk she could find in her wardrobe
London dCadenlu.
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just Like a Woman.

A Boston fair one, or perhaps, con-
sidering the circumstances, | should
say, unfair" one, whose charms near
ly 20 years have somewhat blighted,
has been sojourning at a fashionable
summer resort for several weeks for the
good of her health and spirits. Her
toilets have rivaled the late Mrs. Stew
arts in extensiveness and expense, and
her makeup has been all that bloom
ing two and twenty might in safety
swear to. Perpetual youth reigned on
her toilet-table and reflected itself in
the waviest tresses of ebon hue, peachy
cheeks, and coral lips, skillful dentist
ry, and all those means of grace en-
ployed by women who hate to grow
old. Coquettish laces on the head and
about the throat and diamonds every
where softened these painful facts, and
the near-sighted world exclaimed:
What well-preserved dowager"
The other morning, however, even the
blindest vis-a-vis was forced to admit
something was wrong in the construc-
ton. What had happened no one
precisely knew until chance brought a
keen-eyed young sinner to the break
fast-table. After saying grace-or
something else-in her napkin, she
leaned forward with a bland smile,
and, holding something between her
thumb and finger, said: Good morn
ing, Mrs. Racamere, l believe this is
your GENERALIZATION Herald.
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The ella Monster,

Recently there has been added to the
garden an animal that is as dangerous
as 1t is ugly. 1t comes from Arizona,
is found IN Montana, and is different
from almost every other animal known
to scientists save the eyeless fish of the
Mammoth cave. 1t can not live in the
sunlight. 1t is found in dark, deep,
out-of-the-way caves AID canons. and
its breath is said to be deadly. Now
comes the question. How is this poi
sonous breath emitted? The ella mon
ster is species of lizard, and when
disturbed simply thrusts out a needle
like fang, or, more properly, feeler,
the end of which expands and spreads
out like fan. Some claim that the
poison is emitted from this fan-like ap-
pendage; others think that the poison
Gus exhalation comes from the animals
mouth, and is simply blown out like
the breath of any animal endowed
with sufficient lung power. At any
rate the ella monster is fighter.
When he first arrived he was put in a
cage with two rattlesnakes. They
were large, powerful animals, and all
being reptiles together no apprehen-
sions were entertained that any differ
erences would arise between the cold
blooded creatures. Not so. however.
The snakes went fooling around the
lizard, which is only about fifteen IL
ches long, and filled his little ugly
body full of their poisonous venom. 1t
took no effect whatever, but in the
morning when the keeper came two
dead rattlesnakes lay stretched in the
sand, while the little monster was as
lively as cricket.
When the animal came on by ex-
press it was packed in box, and by
some means got out. The messenger,
with more nerve than discretion,
grabbed it by the tail and thrust it
back, When Stevens told him what a
risk he had run and how deadly the
animal he had handled was he turned
pale and exclaimed: Il wouldn't do
it again for the world"
Its color is sort of dark maroon,
with yellow spots, which brighten af-
ter shedding. Its food consists of in
sects, which of course can not be sup
piled in winter, so instead the ella
monster gets one raw egg a day. 1t
makes hole about quarter of an il CHI
in size, and soon sucks out the con-
tents. The animal is confined in an
iron cage, with glass one-half an inch
in thickness, and through small,
round hole in the top the eggs are let
down in the sand bottom by means of
a wire moose. The cage is kept in a
dark place, where no ray of sunlight
ever comes, and beneath runs a coil
of steam-pipes, as the animal can not
endure the cold. Its head is not un-
like that of an alligator, while its tail
is of considerable thickness, short and
Cincinnati EnQMirer
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Butter Substitutes.

In the Century Professor Atwa-
ter of Wesleyan University begins a
series of papers on The Chemistry
of Foods" From the chapter on
Butter and OIeomargarine we quote
as follows: I'm a number of States in
which the dairy interests are large,
the manufacture and sale of butter
substitutes has been prohibited by le-
gislatiye action. In other States, laws
have been enacted to regulate their
sale and to prevent fraud. An at
tempt was made in Congress to check
the manufacture and sale by taxation
sufficient to bring their cost nearly up
to that of butter. In the law as act
ually passed, however, the tax was
very much reduced, so that while it
may help toward preventing improper
sale of butter substitutes and, by
obliging sellers to pay high license
fees, may considerably interfere with
their general use, it will not be as ef-
fective in excluding them from the
markets as was desired. This is a
case where mechanical invention aid
ed by science is enabled to furnish a
cheap, wholesome, and nutritious food
for the people. Legislation to pro-
vide for official inspection of this, as
of other food products, and to insure
that it shall be sold for what it is and
not for what it is not, is very desira-
BILE. Every reasonable measure to
prevent fraud, here as elsewhere,
ought to be welcomed. But the at
tempt to curtail or suppress the pro-
duction of cheap and useful food
material by law, lest the profits which
a class, the producers of butter, have
enjoyed from the manufacture of a
coStlier article may be diminished, is
opposed to the interests of large
body of people. to the spirit of our in
situations, and to the plainest dictates
of justice"
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406 East North sire e

THOUGHTS OF MARRIAGE. Marriage is
an experiment that never proves any
thing, apparently. At least l judge so
from study of several married men of
my acquaintance. l mean to say that no
principles that can guide bachelors in
the matter have ever been deduced from
the experience of many millions of ex
periments. A man will tell you a great
many things about his sweetheart, her
character and her ways. and all that sort
of thing, but he always shuts up after he
has been married few months, and you
can't get anything out of him that is of
any value to you in selecting a wife.
Most men deprecate their male friends
marrying, after they had some expert.
ence. Most woman urge their female
friends to get married and help them to
get hold of husbands. 1t doesn't much
mat er. Advice doesn't amount to any
thing on the subject and it's your own
business. 1t only becomes other peo-
Piles business after your married, and
then the interest becomes rather lively
sometimes.
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Meals for the Many Of Modern
Means.

Young married couples living in the
plainest way, students working their
way through universities, people en-
gagged in occupations filling nearly the
entire working day-au handicapped
by limited resources of money and ma
terials, with scant working facilities
and more scanty knowledge; how can
they secure the comfort of well-cooked
daily food when this is a rarity in many
prosperous households? No question
that such people need the most nutri-
tious fare and sanitary surroundings;
for to them we look for the future bone
and sinew of our nation. Vigorous
health, fine brains, and moral stamina
can proceed only from that perfect
physical condition that results from
right living. So far as the published
testimony of investigators shows, the
habitual fare of the mass of unskilled
workers in every line of manual labor
is deficient in variety and quality.
Bread and tea for the women and chill
dren, varied with beer and an occa-
sional bit of meat for the man, seem
to be the prevalent foods; and the
bread is usually bought at the bake
shop, and lacks the strengthening
properties of good, homemade bread,
the general reason given for using bak-
er's bread being lack of time or knowl-
edge for making bread at home. In
the poorest households, where fuel is
scant, it is not easy to make good risen
or leavened bread, because considerable
heat is required to ferment the leaven
in cold weather, as well as to bake the
bread Even under such circumstances,
it would be better to take advantage
of any burning of fuel for heating pur-
poses to bake bread or biscuit made
with baking-powder or soda, or to
cook the old-fashioned hammock or
griddle-cake over the fire when the
quantity is sufficient to heat the oven.
Juliet COrS0n IN Good H0uSeEeepsnQ.
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Gallantry Of a Customs Officer.

A charming young English literary
smuggler was bringing home with her
a Tauchnitz novel from Antwerp the
other day, and made acquaintance
with an agreeable stranger on the way,
to whom she confided her nefarious in
tention. At London bridge he recip-
rocated her frankness by informing
her that he was a Custom House off,
Ger, and demanding that the volume
should be given up. but have not
finished it yet" she murmured, plead
ingly. Where have you got to-" he
inquired. She pointed with her taper
finger. Gently taking the book from
the fair contrabandist, he tore away
what she had read and threw it in the
river, returning the portion that was
so precious to her with the customary
how.
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GIVE THEM A CHANCEl

That is to say, your lungs. Also all
your breathing machinery, Very won
derful machinery it is. Not only the
larger air-passages, but the thousands of
little tubes and cavities leading from
them.
When these are clogged and choked
with matter which ought not to be there,
your lungs cannot half do their work.
And what they do, they cannot do
well. (no1D
Call it cold, cough, Group, pneumonia,
catarrh, consumption or any of the fam
lily of throat and nose and head and lung
distractions, all are bad All ought to
be rid of. There is just one sure way to
get rid Of them. That is to take Bos-
chee's German Syrup, which any drug
gist will Sell you at Is cents bottle.
Even if everything else has failed you,
you may depend on this for certain.
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DRUNKENNESS or the liquor habit po-
sitively cured by administering DR..
Haines' golden specific. 1t can be given
in cup of coffee or tea without the
knowledge of the person taking it; is alb
solutely harmless and will effect a per-
manant and speedy cure, whether the
patient is moderate drinker or an alco-
holic wreck. Thousands of drunkards
have been made temperate men who have
taken Golden Specific in their coffee
without their knowledge, and to day be-
lieve they quit drinking of their own free
will. 1T NEVER FAILS. The system
once impregnated with the Specific it be-
comes an utter impossibility for the
liquor appetite to exist. For full parti-
culars, address GOLDEN SPECIFIC
CO., 1876 Race ST., Cincinnati, o. oc29
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BLooM1seros. ILL. Sept. 1s. 1880

Messrs. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo.
O.: Have taken Halls Catarrh Cure.
Had catarrh all my life; am AZ years old.
Had asthma 10 years, and dreadful
cough for five years. Have taken every
thing; went to the Hot Springs; l have
doctored with the doctors here; have
done nothing but take medicine for 10
years. When I commenced using Hall s
Catarrh Cure, 1 was almost dead. / sent
for the doctor the day 1 got Halls Ca
tarrh Cure, and / told him that l would
die any way and that / would try your
medicine. / was very bad. How / suf-
fered for years. could hardly breathe
at times. [ saw Halls Catarrh Cure ad-
vertised in the papers and commenced
taking it, / would have been under the
ground to day if it lad not been for that
L have not had one bad spell of coughing
since. In breathing my head feels well
and | am well. 1t has done me thou
sand dollars worth of good. There are
ten of my friends, on seeing what 1T had
done for me, taking it, and it is helping
them. only wish that every one who
has catarrh, asthma and bad cough
could see me, so that | could tell them
ali to take it. Ali that know me here
know how l have suffered. CT have been
here since 1852 and say to me that 81
am 50 glad you found something that
could cure you Everyone says, chow
much better you look" The doctors
say they ere glad found Halls Catarrh
Cure as they could not cure me.
| cannot express my gratitude to you
for the good Halls Catarrh Cure has
done me. You can use as much of this
letter as will do the afflicted good. Pub.
lish it to the whole world-it is all true
and they should know it.
JOSEPHINE CHRISTIAN
406 Fast North STR eft
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The South Australian Registers re-
tCrns in connection with the wheat
harvest in that colony show that the
net increase Of cultivated land is 90
600 acres, the total area being 1897
600 acres, yielding 1O,SS3,eO0 bushels,
or bushels 81 pounds per acre. After
deducting 100000 bushels for seed
and 1,732.500 bushels for food the sur
plus for export is estimated at 7,1O3,-
900 bushels, or 10000 shipping tons.
Inns Is llo,OOO tons more than last
years exports, but 10000 tons less
than in 1885. The two last seasons
together did not yield as much as in
1884 and 1885 by $4,000 tons. If each
of the last two seasons had been equal
to those of 1884 and 1885 the colony
would have been richer by $4,000. 600.
=
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The Composition of Wigs.

''Is not some preparation needed
before the hair is placed on the mar
ket for sale?"
80 yes, of course. In Paris, where
there are several large hair-dealers to
whom the peddlers sell their colleo-
tons, the sorting, cleaning, and prep
aration Of hair form an important in
dustry. You see, hair from all parts
of the world and of all shades, COM
plexions, lengths, and previous condi-
ton of servitude are brought TO these
hair marts and laid out. The women,
whose powers of distinguishing colors
are exceptionally acute, 60 over them
matching all the different colors of the
same texture, no matter where they
may have come from. These strands
are also matched as to length, until
finally the hair is divided up into lots
of precisely the seme kind. Now, see
here" he said, taking 1awn tress
from the window, you might perhaps
suppose that all this was grown on one
head. That is nonsense, | would not
be surprised, if every hair could tell
the story of its origin, that we would
find representative from every race
on the globe. l see some Chinese
representatives here. You see Chinese
hair has been used to some extent. 1t
is, of course, very coarse and straight,
but in Paris it is split to a fine quality
and subjected to a preparation to
make it glossy. Then, again, hair is
dyed to certain specified shade. A
great portion of all the white hair, to
tell you professional secret, is manu-
featured by bleaching, But all these
preparations are virtual failures, and
nothing is so good as the genuine ar
ticle free from preparation, although
it is more costly. - San Francisco
Gail
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81 beg your pardon" said bashful
Young lady to gentleman who had just
been introduced, and whose name she
had not caught in the confusion of the
moment. II beg your pardon, but how
do you spell your name2'
IS m t-h, he replied, with some sur
prise.
.sOhl'' she returned, with admirable
presence of mind, ''thank you. A great
many people of your name spell it Smy-
the, you know, and that was my reason
for putting the question"
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Story of Two Birds.

An English lady, residing in the
country, has a pet blackbird. Last
summer the birds cage was placed in
the open window and wild blackbird
flew down to it, looking through for 3
minute or two at the prisoner, and then
flying away. A minute afterward the
visitor returned, bearing worm in its
beak. This act of friendship was re-
peated again and again, until the Gagged
bird and his mistress had to leave. The
riTo birds had been separated for eight
months. hut recently the lady returned
to the country, and had not hung the
cage up half an hour before the same
wild blackbird was seen flying down
to his old friend,